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Click on the Show/Hide button (¶) in the Home tab of the Ribbon. It has an
orange background in your screen shot which shows that it is active.

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Hope this helps.

Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my
services on a paid consulting basis.

Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com
"Joe727" <> wrote in message
news:%...
> Hi - I don't know what I inadvertently clicked, but every Word 2007
> document I open has formatting symbols prominently displayed.
>
> Here's a screenshot of the paragraph symbol next to the cursor on a blank
> document.
>
> http://home.roadrunner.com/~jbmsbink/Word Screenshot.jpg
>
> When I open Word files that I previously created, they are plastered with
> all kinds of similar symbols.
>
> Question: I do I turn this feature off so that I don't see these symbols
> on all of my Word documents?
>
> Thanks
>
> Joe
>
>

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Thanks Doug - I've been using Word since Word '97 and I've never had a use
for that particular function. Now I know what I inadvertantly clicked.
BTW - I still love the Word 2007 ribbon.

Joe

"Doug Robbins - Word MVP" <> wrote in message
news:...
> Click on the Show/Hide button (¶) in the Home tab of the Ribbon. It has
> an orange background in your screen shot which shows that it is active.
>
> --
> Hope this helps.
>
> Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my
> services on a paid consulting basis.
>
> Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com
> "Joe727" <> wrote in message
> news:%...
>> Hi - I don't know what I inadvertently clicked, but every Word 2007
>> document I open has formatting symbols prominently displayed.
>>
>> Here's a screenshot of the paragraph symbol next to the cursor on a blank
>> document.
>>
>> http://home.roadrunner.com/~jbmsbink/Word Screenshot.jpg
>>
>> When I open Word files that I previously created, they are plastered with
>> all kinds of similar symbols.
>>
>> Question: I do I turn this feature off so that I don't see these symbols
>> on all of my Word documents?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Joe
>>
>>
>

"Joe727" <> wrote in message
news:...
> Thanks Doug - I've been using Word since Word '97 and I've never had a use
> for that particular function. Now I know what I inadvertantly clicked.
> BTW - I still love the Word 2007 ribbon.
>
> Joe
>
> "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" <> wrote in message
> news:...
>> Click on the Show/Hide button (¶) in the Home tab of the Ribbon. It has
>> an orange background in your screen shot which shows that it is active.
>>
>> --
>> Hope this helps.
>>
>> Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my
>> services on a paid consulting basis.
>>
>> Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com
>> "Joe727" <> wrote in message
>> news:%...
>>> Hi - I don't know what I inadvertently clicked, but every Word 2007
>>> document I open has formatting symbols prominently displayed.
>>>
>>> Here's a screenshot of the paragraph symbol next to the cursor on a
>>> blank document.
>>>
>>> http://home.roadrunner.com/~jbmsbink/Word Screenshot.jpg
>>>
>>> When I open Word files that I previously created, they are plastered
>>> with all kinds of similar symbols.
>>>
>>> Question: I do I turn this feature off so that I don't see these
>>> symbols on all of my Word documents?
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>> Joe
>>>
>>>
>>
>
>

"Stefan Blom" <> wrote in message
news:...
> For more on nonprinting marks, see
> http://word.mvps.org/faqs/formatting/NonPrintChars.htm.
>
> --
> Stefan Blom
> Microsoft Word MVP
>
>
>
> "Joe727" <> wrote in message
> news:...
>> Thanks Doug - I've been using Word since Word '97 and I've never had a
>> use for that particular function. Now I know what I inadvertantly
>> clicked. BTW - I still love the Word 2007 ribbon.
>>
>> Joe
>>
>> "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" <> wrote in message
>> news:...
>>> Click on the Show/Hide button (¶) in the Home tab of the Ribbon. It has
>>> an orange background in your screen shot which shows that it is active.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Hope this helps.
>>>
>>> Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my
>>> services on a paid consulting basis.
>>>
>>> Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com
>>> "Joe727" <> wrote in message
>>> news:%...
>>>> Hi - I don't know what I inadvertently clicked, but every Word 2007
>>>> document I open has formatting symbols prominently displayed.
>>>>
>>>> Here's a screenshot of the paragraph symbol next to the cursor on a
>>>> blank document.
>>>>
>>>> http://home.roadrunner.com/~jbmsbink/Word Screenshot.jpg
>>>>
>>>> When I open Word files that I previously created, they are plastered
>>>> with all kinds of similar symbols.
>>>>
>>>> Question: I do I turn this feature off so that I don't see these
>>>> symbols on all of my Word documents?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks
>>>>
>>>> Joe
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>
>

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